Family and Social Change: The Household as a Process in an Industrializing Community

ISBN-13: 9780521892155 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 344 str.

Angelique Janssens; Richard Smith; Jan de Vries

Opis

This book examines the effects of nineteenth-century industrialization on the strength of relationships within the family and between generations. Dr. Janssens' quantitative approach, based on Dutch population registers, reveals a new perspective: although family life did go through some changes, early industrialization did not lead to the destruction of nineteenth-century family life, as the traditionally dominant view contended. This innovative study also illuminates wider social issues--the nature of hierarchies, class structure and household organization.